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Oddity within translation conventions

Well, "black" in, AFAIK, many other languages is a word similar to the 'bad word' used in that article, and "black" may have been confused with "dark". (It was probably supposed to be "dark brown".) I don't speak any Chinese at all, though I've read my share of Engrish. 😛
 
i just think somebody got tired of all the "me luv u looong time" jokes and decided its time to return the favor
 
In Chinese, if someone wanted to point out to someone something, they could say "nay-guh". Lets say the maker asked the designer which shade of brown they wanted. If presented with a panel of assorted brown colors, the designer might've pointed at a specific shade and said "nay-guh" (meaning that one).
 
My dad a lso told me that when he first started learning english in china, they were told african americans were called "n1ggers". Maybe the factory workers were refering to that old system
 
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